Sarah Kane's Theatre of Psychic Life: Theatre, Thought and Mental Suffering - Paperback
by Leah Sidi
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Availability:In StockContributor:Leah SidiSeries:Methuen Drama EngagePublish date:2024-10-31Pages:230
Languages:EnglishPublisher:Methuen DramaISBN-13:9781350283169ISBN-10:1350283169UPC:9781350283169Book Category:Performing ArtsBook Subcategory:TheaterBook Topic:PlaywritingSize:8.50 x 5.50 x 0.48 inchesWeight:0.6Product ID:SCRX6EEXQ9
The first book to focus exclusively on playwright Sarah Kane's approach to mind and mental health; it brings together archival material, healthcare contexts and contemporary performances. As such, it offers an important re-evaluation of Kane's oeuvre, revealing the relationship between theatre and mind, which lies at the heart of her theatrical project.
Drawing on performance theory, psychoanalysis and neuroscience, this book argues that Kane's innovations generated a 'dramaturgy of psychic life', which re-shape the encounter between stage and audience. It uses previously unseen archival material and contemporary productions to uncover the mechanics of this innovative theatre practice.
Through a radically open-ended approach to dramaturgy, Kane's works offer urgent insights into mental suffering that take us beyond traditional discourses of empathy and 'mental health' and into a profound rethinking of theatre as a mode of thought.
It makes a case for the relevance of Kane's work to understandings of contemporary diagnostic categories and places it in urgent debates about mental health in the medical humanities.
Drawing on performance theory, psychoanalysis and neuroscience, this book argues that Kane's innovations generated a 'dramaturgy of psychic life', which re-shape the encounter between stage and audience. It uses previously unseen archival material and contemporary productions to uncover the mechanics of this innovative theatre practice.
Through a radically open-ended approach to dramaturgy, Kane's works offer urgent insights into mental suffering that take us beyond traditional discourses of empathy and 'mental health' and into a profound rethinking of theatre as a mode of thought.
It makes a case for the relevance of Kane's work to understandings of contemporary diagnostic categories and places it in urgent debates about mental health in the medical humanities.
Languages:EnglishPublisher:Methuen DramaISBN-13:9781350283169ISBN-10:1350283169UPC:9781350283169Book Category:Performing ArtsBook Subcategory:TheaterBook Topic:PlaywritingSize:8.50 x 5.50 x 0.48 inchesWeight:0.6Product ID:SCRX6EEXQ9
Sidi, Leah: - Leah Sidi is Lecturer in Health Humanities at University College London, UK. Her research focus is on contemporary theatre and mental health, with a special focus on feminist theatre and psychoanalysis. She has been the recipient of the Feminist Review Archive Award and a Wellcome/ISSF postdoctoral award at Birkbeck, University of London, UK. She has published in Performance Research and is a regular contributor to the Institute for Medical Humanities' The Polyphony.Taylor-Batty, Mark: - Mark Taylor-Batty is Associate Professor of Theatre Studies and Deputy Head of School in the School of English at the University of Leeds, UK. His previous publications include The Theatre of Harold Pinter (Bloomsbury, 2014), About Pinter: The Playwright and the Work (Faber and Faber, 2005), Roger Blin: Collaborations and Methodologies (Peter Lang, 2007) and, he co-authored with his wife, Juliette Taylor-Batty, Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot (Continuum, 2009).Brater, Enoch: -
Enoch Brater is the Kenneth T. Rowe Collegiate Professor of Dramatic Literature, Professor of English and Theater at the University of Michigan and the series editor of Methuen Drama's Miller scholarly editions. He has written extensively on the work of Samuel Beckett and Arthur Miller.
Enoch Brater is the Kenneth T. Rowe Collegiate Professor of Dramatic Literature, Professor of English and Theater at the University of Michigan. He is series editor of Methuen Drama's Arthur Miller scholarly editions, and with Mark Taylor-Batty of Methuen Drama's Engage series. He has written extensively on the work of Samuel Beckett and Arthur Miller.Publisher: Methuen Drama
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